The Osceola times., 1887-10-22
cRfsrrs AND CASUALTIES.

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CRIaTEs AND CASUALTIES.
A TERRIBLE railroad disaster occurred
near Kouts. Ind, ON the night Of the 10Th
in which il Is believed thirty human lives
were lost. The railroad officials appear e
he trying 10 suppress the worst features OF
the accident, and its cause.
AT revival meeting in church al
Madlsonvillt, KY, on the night of the 10th
Lonnie Preston and one Bryant became
involved In quarrel, a stampede ensued
the worshipers giving mp the church tC
the combatants. Whom quiet was restored
Preston was found on the floor disem
! boweled, while BRYANT was missing. Pres
ton will die.
BY fire in Northern Ohio Insane Asv-
lum, at Cleveland. on the evening Of the
18th. several OF the inmates met their
death by asphvxiation aud burning. The
/ loss on the building will reach S25,OOo.
| The most heroic work on the part of the
officers aud attendants was called into
requisitou 10 subdue the panic among the
unfortunate patients.
An inquest is being held at Kouts, Ind,
over the victims of the great railroad hor-
ror.
russell BGowv, who killed his grand
mother, Mrs. Doris, in st. Lou', in Jan
uary, 1882, escaped from the Missouri State
prison on the night OF the lltli.
IT is about settled that no one will ever
know definitely how many persons per-
| ished in the recent Chicago & Atlantic
horror near Kouts, Ind. The estimates
continue to vary from thirty down TO ten.
Tue defalcation of Il. s. Hicks, cashier
Of the Stafford Comm National Bank,
win exceed 800 900, but the exact amount
will not he known until returns are made
from various New York and Boston banks.
A CANADIAN priest was hogged, on the
18th, under the law, tor crimnally as
saulting young lady.
FURTHER details confirm the first re-
ports OF the Ohio Insane asylum horror.
The total number Of fatalities was seven.
The jury in the case OF Herman Tuber,
the Union hin IN. - Anarchist, after be-
ing out about twenty minutes, on the l3th,
returned verdict Of guilty.
"DoC" Andrews, one Of the men men.
toned in Stairs confession IS participate
ing In the Dexter (Me.) murder aud bank
robbery, was arrested on The 18th He has
lived at Bangor since about tbs date Of
the tragedy.
TnE schooner Thoma L. Tavry, that
sailed from Gloucester. Mass, August. / 3
with q crew of fourteen men, on q fishing
voyage, Is given up for lost with all on
board. Sho was last seen at anchor Sep :
tenibcr 3, the DAY Of tho disastrous har-
rcane on tho BANKS.
MIME DEMoEsg, 'the adopted dau ;hteei
OF Jam,s llenders1n, OF Maristee, Mich,
confossos 10 poisoning her foster iather's
cows to get rid Of having 10 milk them.
She SCI, fire to Henderson's house five
tmes and smothcred ths baby of Hcnder
son, who died fow weeks ago, because
she did not want 10 nurse it. The girl is
only seventeen years of age.
TE jury in the case Of Policeman Hahn,
or trial in New York for the murder OF tho
brave lifc-sayer, HusseY, rendered ver-
dict Of not guilty ON the li'h.
JuDGr FIELD, of the Circuit Court NJ
Valparaiso, Ind, has issued summons to-
the grand jury TO convene on the l1th, and
charges them with thorough investiga-
tion OF the kouts disaster.
CHARLES EDWARDS, a negro, was hanged
at Clarksville. Ga, ON the lith, for the
murder Of William Echols, last May. Ed
wards met his victim on a lonely road late
at night, and ridlled his BODY with bulle
JOHN A. REYNOLDS, editor OF tho Atchi-
son (Kas.) Times. was convicted at Leav-
cnworth, on the 18th, Of Illegal use of the
mails and was sentenced to eighteen
months Imprisonment and TO pay a fine
Of $500,
+. RoDDY, constable Of Grundy County,
Tenn. was shot and probably fatally
wounded ON the 18th by Philip Roberts,
while endeavoring to arrest the iatter for
carrying pistol. A posse Of citizens went
in pursuit.
The British guu-boat Wasp is given up
as lost, the search steamers having re-
turned TO Singapore without having been
able to got any trace of the missing vessel
or her people.
CRIMINAL proceedings have been di-
rectcd TO be instituted against Jesse Lee
Hall, agent Tor the kiowa, Comanche and
Wichita Indians in the Indian Territory,
upon charges OF malfeasance in Office.
JosrPH SCHLEMMER, the Jersey City
IN. J,) wife murderer, was sentenced on
the 18th TO bo hanged December Il next
THE body of Tnos. VI. Elliott, a former
attache OF the star Of the Brooklyn CW-
zen, was found floating in the East river
at New York on the lG,h. Elliott was
formerly fashion writer for the paper.
The manner in which the deceased was
drowned is a mystery.
CmAs McCUAy, assistant yard-mastep
of the Nandalia road, was found dead in a
freight ear at rerrc Haute, Ind, ON the
10th The supposilion Is that he was mur-
derod the day previous. His skull was
crushed and he had boen shot twice in the
head. There Is no Glow.